The 116 acres of undeveloped land in Kinnelon known as the Untermeyer Lake tract has been purchased and will be preserved as open space.
The land will be owned by Kinnelon and managed jointly by the borough and the Morris County Park Commission, which will hold an easement on 80-acres of the property, according to an announcement from the Morris County Board of Freeholders, Trust for Public Land, New Jersey Highlands Council and Kinnelon Borough.
The $1.1 million acquisition is the second facilitated by The Trust for Public Land in this area.
It will help protect drinking water supplies and provide new recreational opportunities for residents and visitors to North Jersey.
The voter-approved Morris County Open Space Preservation Program provided a majority of the funding for the purchase, or $800,000 of the $1.1 million price tag.
“Preserving natural tracts like this one in Kinnelon is why residents of Morris County strongly support our county and local open space preservation programs,’’ said Morris County Freeholder Christine Myers.
The program seeks to work with nonprofit, municipal, county and state partners to protect important natural resources within the Highlands Region through matching grants.
“With this acquisition in Kinnelon, residents and visitors will now have better access to the trails and natural areas that make the New Jersey Highlands a spectacular resource for our state,” said Anthony Cucchi, State Director of The Trust for Public Land.
The Morris County Park Commission plans to create a network of mountain bike trails linking these preservation areas.
“The preservation of this tract of land is the continuation of a collaborative relationship that the Morris County Park Commission has had with the Borough of Kinnelon over the last 10 to 15 years.,’’ said Morris County Park Commission Executive Director Dave Helmer.

City provides mobile water stations for homeless during heatwave.
As a mid-summer heatwave beats down on the city, Calgary’s homeless are staying hydrated thanks to a fleet of mobile water stations.
On Thursday, the city deployed three water wagons to the Mustard Seed, Alpha House and the Calgary Drop-In Centre — a gesture much appreciated by clients and their advocates.
“It means so much to us, it’s such a wonderful asset to have,” said Drop-In Centre spokesperson Jordan Hamilton.
With a forecast of rain bringing a welcome — albeit brief — reprieve on Monday, temperatures are expected to climb again as the week continues.
Normal temperatures for this time of year generally hover around the mid 20s.
Hamilton said the homeless are particularly vulnerable to the ill-effects of hot weather, when regular access to clean and safe drinking water — not to mention seeking shelter from a blazing sun — can be a challenge.
As well, signs of heat stroke and exhaustion may end up going unnoticed, leading to preventable medical emergencies.
Hamilton said the water wagon goes a long way to ensuring clients remain vigilant about their health, which may not always be the number one priority for those living on the streets.
“This is making all of us more conscious about the need to take care of ourselves.”

Navajo Nation residents short of running water.
This one, leading to a one-spigot watering hole a few miles away, is the main water supply for about 900 people living nearby.
It’s about nine miles one way from my house to the nearest water hole.” Leaders of the Navajo Water Project, a nonprofit working to bring more running water to Navajo homes in New Mexico and clean water to an Arizona school for youths who are disabled, estimate about 40 percent of Navajo Nation members don’t have access to running water in their homes.
In tiny Oljato, where about 900 people live in this Monument Valley community, traveling to get water is a normal part of life, with some regretting it and others shrugging it off.
George McGraw, founder of the Navajo Water Project, said the lack of water access is unacceptable.
“That is the big challenge,” said John, who is not related to Lionel John.
“Normally, when you go into communities in the West, there are cities.
“We have to haul in water just to live off of,” Mark Holiday said.
“That is an issue with the Navajo EPA,” John said.
The challenge to a rural area is that it’s hard to bring qualified people in because it’s not easy living out there in a rural area.

Green Party will ensure clean, safe drinking water.
Press Release – Green Party Green Party will ensure clean, safe drinking water for everyone The Green Party is today launching a policy that will ensure New Zealanders have access to clean, safe drinking water with measures including making water bottlers and exporters pay …Green Party will ensure clean, safe drinking water for everyone The Green Party is today launching a policy that will ensure New Zealanders have access to clean, safe drinking water with measures including making water bottlers and exporters pay for the water they take and sell.
“Forty-five thousand New Zealanders – the equivalent population of Nelson – have to put up with faecal contamination in their drinking water at least once a year, and some communities have to boil their water every single day to make sure it’s clean enough to drink,” said Green Party Co-leader James Shaw.
New Zealanders are more and more aware of what an injustice this is.
“We will put an immediate 10c/litre levy on sales or exports of bottled still and sparkling water, to ensure that companies who profit from sales of our cleanest water are paying for that privilege.
“We’ll protect drinking water sources from the activities that pollute them with pathogens, sediment, run-off, and nitrates.
“Water bottling and exporting isn’t the only sector profiting from the use of water.
In government, we’ll develop a fair way to charge all commercial water users, something that the National Government has avoided responsibility for for the entire time its been in government.
We’ll do this through a process involving nationwide meetings and hui with all interested people and organisations.
The Green Party has the solutions to ensure we all have safe water to drink,” said Mr Shaw.

Greens promise 10% water levy, playing to public uproar over companies using cheap water consents.
The Green Party are promising a 10 cent levy on the sale and export of water, as they kick off their election campaign today.
A refugee, TV host and Auckland mayoral candidate all have good chances of getting into parliament.
Source: 1 NEWS With 76 days to go until polling day, the party are first out of the blocks with their launch in Nelson.
Candidate and local councillor Matt Lawrey is hoping to win the party’s first seat in 1999, from environment minister Nick Smith who has a 20,000 majority.
Mr Shaw said it was "unfair" companies can profit.
The Greens’ levy would be divided between local councils and iwi.
In the longer term, the Greens want to develop a "fair price" for commercial users, including farmers.
They would establish a working group to do that.
The proposal also includes new standards on clean drinking water and greater protection for groundwater.

Green Party proposes tighter rules for water sales.
The Green Party says it will charge bottling companies access to water, if elected to government.
Photo: Supplied At its campaign launch in Nelson, the party said too many exporters were profiting from a free resource.
It said it would put an immediate 10 cent per litre levy on the sale of water and the revenue would be split between local councils and mana whenua.
The councils would be expected to use the money for environmental programmes and drinking water management.
The Green Party said it would also ban any new resource consents for bottling companies until a comprehensive commercial water pricing scheme was in place.
As part of its policy to protect drinking water, the party would also reinstate the Drinking Water Subsidy which previously resulted in $100 million over 10 years being allocated to small communities.
Those communities would receive upgraded equipment and technical advice to help access clean water.
The Green Party would also make changes to the Resource Management Act and the National Environment Standard for Drinking water.
It said councils would be required to prioritise drinking water when making decisions about allocating resources.

Green Party proposes tighter rules for water sales.
The Green Party says it will charge bottling companies access to water, if elected to government.
Photo: Supplied At its campaign launch in Nelson, the party said too many exporters were profiting from a free resource.
It said it would put an immediate 10 cent per litre levy on the sale of water and the revenue would be split between local councils and mana whenua.
The councils would be expected to use the money for environmental programmes and drinking water management.
The Green Party said it would also ban any new resource consents for bottling companies until a comprehensive commercial water pricing scheme was in place.
As part of its policy to protect drinking water, the party would also reinstate the Drinking Water Subsidy which previously resulted in $100 million over 10 years being allocated to small communities.
Those communities would receive upgraded equipment and technical advice to help access clean water.
The Green Party would also make changes to the Resource Management Act and the National Environment Standard for Drinking water.
It said councils would be required to prioritise drinking water when making decisions about allocating resources.

As part of what is being called the AZ Pure Water Brew Challenge, more than 30 Arizona breweries have agreed to make beer this summer with water from a portable system that treats wastewater.
The water system, which is being hauled around the state by a semi-truck, made a stop July 3 at Rio de Flag Wastewater Treatment Plant in Flagstaff.
"For Flagstaff it gives us one more tool in our toolbox for future water supplies should the community elect to go that route," said Brad Hill, utilities director with the city.
Water microbiologist Channah Rock, who is leading public outreach for the brewing challenge, says the truck’s statewide tour marks the first time wastewater is being treated for reuse as drinking water in the state of Arizona.
The AZ Pure Water Brew Challenge comes at a time when state environmental regulators are nearing completion of interim rules that will allow utilities to treat reclaimed wastewater for reuse as drinking water.
Inside the shipping container, treated wastewater in Flagstaff went through several steps including ultra-filtration to block bacteria and other small organisms; reverse osmosis to dissolve things like salts, minerals and pharmaceuticals; and ultraviolet disinfection with advanced oxidation to break down the DNA of bacteria and viruses.
The initial run-through of the advanced treatment process will be a big step for Flagstaff’s utilities department as it evaluates the potable reuse of treated wastewater as part of the city’s long-term water supply plan.
The Pure Water Brew truck will return to Flagstaff in August when the tests are done.
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Five years into South Sudan’s independence, children denied childhoods – UNICEF.
8 July 2017 – As South Sudan enters its sixth year of independence, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is calling the situation in the country “a catastrophe for children” and cautioned that they are being denied a childhood in nearly all aspects of their lives.
However, today in South Sudan, there will be no celebration for the millions of children caught up in this conflict,” said Mahimbo Mdoe, UNICEF’s Representative in South Sudan, on the occasion of South Sudan’s Independence Day on 9 July.
He noted that children in South Sudan are suffering “unthinkable hardships and setbacks” in their education, nutrition, health and other rights.
“In nearly all aspects of their lives children are being denied a childhood in South Sudan.” The country has been in conflict since December 2013, with at least 2,500 children killed or injured, and more than two million children displaced or seeking refuge in neighbouring countries.
Hundreds have also been raped and sexually assaulted.
UNICEF noted that with 2.2 million children out of school, the country has the highest proportion of school children not in classrooms, with 70 per cent of children not receiving any education.
An estimated 1.1 million children in the country are acutely malnourished, according to UNICEF.
In addition, children lack clean water, which has led to the ongoing outbreak of cholera – the longest and most widespread in the country’s history – with 10,000 cases reported, the majority children.
UNICEF, along with other UN agencies and non-UN partners, are working to provide safe drinking water and food to children, as well as to reunite them with their families and to support some stability in their lives through schooling.

The activity for the night watch team hasn’t slowed as the heavy wind in the past few days has kept the elephants at bay until sunset.
But when the Athletes arrived from the east, the Pharaohs succeeded in holding their position at the source of the spring, forcing Mia and her family to drink from the pan.
When Big Momma arrived on the heels of the Pharaohs’ departure last night, they displaced the remaining Athletes from the waterhole.
Big Momma and Cleopatra are particularly vigilant matriarchs, their patrolling of the spring being a testament to their dedication to their family’s fitness, making sure that their families have access to the purest drinking water.
, Ph.D., is a faculty member at Stanford University School of Medicine, and a world-renowned expert on elephants.
The Elephant Scientist won five awards, including both the Sibert and Horn Book Honors.
An Elephant’s Life and A Baby Elephant In The Wild depict the complex social lives of elephants through images.
Her more recent books included Elephant Don (University of Chicago Press, 2015) and Ivory Ghosts (Penguin Random House ebook imprint Alibi, 2015), and the sequel, White Gold.
ELEPHANT KING, a documentary about her research, won the CINE Best Environment & Nature Award.
For more information, visit her nonprofit organization Utopia Scientific website (utopiascientific.org) and her author site at caitlineoconnell.com.